On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12:20, Richard Urwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 Apr 2004 7:44 am, Job Evers wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:23:38 -0400
> >
> > JoeHill wrote:
> > > Anyhow, IQ tests are unreliable, culturally and
> > > socio-economically biased, and not necessarily an indication of
> > > true intelligence.
> >
> > I especially love the 'IQ tests' online.  They range from answer 12
> > stupid questions (after a couple of tries its pretty easy to get
> > all 12 right :-)) to the really long super hard pattern recognition
> > tests.
>
> The one I liked the most just kept asking questions until you gave
> up, and then reported your IQ based on how long it took you to
> realise that it wasn't going to stop. (Sorry, I don't have a link.)
>
> This one's a bit of fun (doesn't measure IQ though)
> http://www.soronlin.org.uk/geekquiz.html
>
> I learnt a lot of Javascript doing it too.
>
> > > Mine's 136 :-D
>
> hmm... 136D
> I hope that's metric.
>
> > Never taken a real one.  I've scored anywhere between 110 on some
> > stupid british test (cultural bias) to 180 on one of those 12
> > question tests :-)
>
> Mine's 148 = 2 standard deviations, as measured by Mensa. (ie I
> squeeked in). It's 110 as measured by a stupid British TV show.
geez I thought TV lowered IQ by at least 50.
-- 
Regards;
Hoyt

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